Best Ever Cornbread Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400³F.
• Grease bottom and side or round pan, 9x1 1/2 inches, or square pan, 8x8x2 inches, with shortening.
• Beat milk, butter and egg in large bowl with hand beater or wire whisk.
• Stir in remaining ingredients all at once just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy).
• Pour into pan.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Serve warm if desired.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Combine all ingredients and mix well -- it will be thicker than you expect.
• Pour into buttered 9" x 13" casserole dish.
• Bake in oven for 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
• This cornbread is very moist and dense.
• For a little variation, add one or more of the following: a can of chopped green chiles, 1 cup of cheddar cheese, 1 cup of pepperjack cheese, 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro.
• Let it cool for 10 minutes for best flavor.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8 inch square pan.
• Melt butter in large skillet. Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Quickly add eggs and beat until well blended. Combine buttermilk with baking soda and stir into mixture in pan. Stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt until well blended and few lumps remain. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Steps:

• Put the skillet in the oven and preheat to 375 degrees.
• Combine the dry ingredients except for the baking soda in a bowl.
• In another bowl, mix the buttermilk and the baking soda.
• Set aside.
• In a small bowl, beat the egg with the sugar until combined.
• Add the oil and mix until combined.
• Pour this mixture into the buttermilk/baking soda, and mix.
• When the oven is preheated, toss the butter into the skillet and let it melt.
• Meanwhile, pour the wet ingredients into the dry, and mix in as few strokes as it takes to just make the dough come together.
• Pull the skillet out of the oven, swirling to get the butter covering the bottom and up the sides of the skillet.
• Pour the batter immediately into the pan, smoothing the top, then back into the oven for about 25 minutes, or until golden brown and pulled away from the sides of the pan.
• Turn out onto a cutting board, cut into wedges and serve.
• NOTE: IMNSHO- cornbread isn't worth making if you don't make it in a cast-iron skillet.
• It may just be my upbringing, but it tastes better somehow.
• And please do not add the baking soda to the dry ingredients.
• I can't explain why, but adding it to the buttermilk makes a big difference in the texture.

Steps:

• Dry Bowl: Whisk 2 cups cornmeal, 3 cups all-purpose flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, and 1 teaspoon salt together, blending thoroughly.
• Wet Bowl: Beat 4 eggs together, add 1 cup of melted butter, 3 cups of milk, and 2 cups of sugar, blending throughly.
• Slowly add 1 cup of the dry bowl contents to the wet bowl, whisking until completely mixed before adding another cup. Continue until all of the dry bowl is mixed in with the wet bowl.
• Pour into a buttered 10″ to 12″ Dutch Oven and bake for 1 hour and 17 minutes at 350 degrees. You might have to adjust your baking time and temperature for your oven.
• Serve warm with honey butter.

Steps:

• Whisk together oil and sugar until well blended.
• Add eggs, 2 at a time, and beat well after each addition.
• Whisk in sour cream and milk.
• Add dry ingredients and beat just until blended.
• Let batter rest for 15 minutes.
• Spoon into 2 sprayed 9-inch pans (either round or square) and bake at 425 for 15-17 minutes.
• Let cool a few minutes, then turn onto a rack and slice, and serve hot with butter and honey!